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Coma | The White House
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Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | 1994 | Charles
Top Box Office Films | 1994 | James Newton
Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1994 | Gary
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1994
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1994 | Kevin
Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture Leading Role | 1994 | Kevin
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1994 | Gary
Democracy | 1994
Budget 28,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 92,000,000 USD
Although the plot of this movie is largely fantasy, there was an actual instance in U.S. history of a president's administration covering up the extent of his stroke and debilitation and instead allowing an unelected non-politician to govern in his place after his incapacity. In the autumn of 1919, about two years into Woodrow Wilson's second term, he suffered a stroke that left him semi-paralyzed, partly blind, and mentally incapacitated to an extent that is, a century later, still not completely known. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment (which establishes the procedures for responding to a presidential incapacity) had not yet been ratified. Instead of Wilson simply resigning and passing the presidency to his vice-president, Thomas R. Marshall, what happened instead was that the extent of Wilson's illness was kept secret, and Wilson's second wife, Edith, started running the executive branch of the U.S. government in the president's place.
This movie's Oval Office set was re-used more than twenty-five times, for television shows and movies like The Pelican Brief (1993), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), and Absolute Power (1997).
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were big fans of this movie. Clinton gave screenwriter Gary Ross a framed copy of the script, which Clinton had autographed, writing that it was a "funny, often accurate lampooning of politics." Clinton also gave Ross a picture of himself holding a "Dave" mug. Obama told Kevin Kline, "I love watching the movie when I'm depressed because you make the job of President look so fun and so easy."
This is one of two movies in which Kevin Kline played the President of the United States and the man impersonating the President. The other being Wild Wild West (1999), in which he as Artemus Gordon portrayed President Ulysses S. Grant.
Sigourney Weaver's hair is short because she shaved her head for her previous movie, Alien³.
"Dave: If you've ever seen the look on somebody's face the day they finally get a job, I've had some experience with this, they look like they could fly. And its not about the paycheck, it's about respect, it's about looking in the mirror and knowing that you've done something valuable with your day. And if one person could start to feel this way, and then another person, and then another person, soon all these other problems may not seem so impossible. You don't really know how much you can do, until you stand up and decide to really try."
"[Dave shakes hands with Duane just before they part company] Duane: Dave? Dave: Yeah? Duane: I would have taken a bullet for you. [Dave looks stunned for a moment, then smiles] Dave: Thanks, Duane."
